Ooh, the balcony sounds lovely! This is a thing I love about Craftsman architecture, that a regular feature in houses is a sleeping porch, screened or open. (They're often cannibalized in renovations, which is an enormous pity!) On my list of maybe-someday-if-I-get-rich renovations is adding a sleeping porch onto the back of my house, opening off my bedroom. It'll probably never happen, because let's face it, I'll probably never be rich, but it's so much fun to dream about it.